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boucle

boucle is the alternative spelling of bouclé.

Meaning of bouclé

Noun

bouclé (countable and uncountable, plural bouclés)

  1. A fabric knitted or woven of uneven yarn with a surface of loops and curls.
    • Argent’s Metropolitan line was a sound investment, with its chemically treated bouclé cushions and Airform core.2021, Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle, Fleet, page 18
  2. Yarn with multiple plies, one of which is looser than the others, producing loops and curls.

Proper noun capitalized: Boucle

Boucle (plural Boucles)

  1. A surname

Forms of boucle

Noun
pluralboucles
Proper noun
pluralBoucles

Questions about boucle

What does boucle mean?
Boucle means a surname.
What is boucle the alternative spelling of?
Boucle is the alternative spelling of bouclé.
What part of speech is boucle?
Boucle is a proper noun.

Words near boucle in the dictionary

  1. bouchons
  2. bouchée
  3. bouchées
  4. Bouck
  5. Boucks
  6. boucle
  7. boucles
  8. bouclé
  9. bouclés
  10. Bouctouche
  11. boud

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: boucle (page history and authors); Boucle (page history and authors); bouclé (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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